Gareth Williams - voice and piano
Jennifer Murphy - Violin
David McCann - Cello

Gareth Williams is a composer and songwriter whose work in opera, music theatre, and song explores new collaborations, participants, and audiences. His site-responsive stage works have been performed in lighthouses, distilleries, and libraries, and he has created award-winning music for companies such as Scottish Opera, Tapestry Opera, National Theatre of Scotland, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and many more. He is Reader in Composition at the University of Edinburgh.

Songs from the Last Page:

"These songs all have one thing in common - they begin on the final page of a book. And, all the books I chose for this collection also have something in common - when I read them, I didn't want them to end. So I took what I found in the final lines, with no words added and none taken out, and built verses, choruses, bridges, and refrains. Stories never stay on the page anyway - these ones just became songs.

In each song, we hold on to the moment that comes just before we close a book for the final time. Remain there in the melancholy, the awkwardness, in the joy or the chill, even in the silence. Some of these stories end with trauma or heartache, some end with the promise of another adventure, some end in solitude. One ends with a slushie. All of them have allowed me to celebrate people, places, writing, and language. And they have allowed me to explore the notion that nothing is ever truly over- you can find a new beginning at the end of any story if you sit at the piano for long enough."